Man armed with gun invades Brockton home

The residents of a Nason Street home told police that a man armed with a gun forced his way into their home Friday night.

Cody Shepard The Enterprise @cshepard_ENT

BROCKTON – A man armed with a gun forced his way into a city home while two men were inside Friday night.

Police responded to 10 Nason St., about 9:26 p.m., for a report of an armed home invasion.

“Two gentlemen said they were sitting in a bedroom when they heard a knock on the door and saw a female standing outside,” police Lt. William Hallisey said. “When they answered the door, a masked man pushed his way through and entered the home with a nickel-plated gun.”

One of the men ran out the back door and kept going until he found someone who would call 911. The other man ran out the front door after the man went inside.

“One of them said they saw the perpetrators leave and flee south in a blue Ford Expedition,” Hallisey said.

When the residents went back inside the home with police, they said nothing was missing or out of the ordinary.

They described the woman as being white with blonde hair, about 5-feet 7-inches tall and 200 pounds. The man was described as white, about 6-feet tall, and a medium to heavyset build.

Police later stopped a car matching the description of the home invasion and found the woman that the potential victims described as knocking on the door.

“She stated she knows the parties that live there,” Hallisey said. “She said she went up and knocked on the door and that is when someone came up behind her and pushed her out of the way and ran inside.”

She showed police that she knows the men, and had text messages to prove it, but the residents claimed they didn’t know who the woman at the door was.

The man who apparently entered the home with the gun had not been identified as of Saturday morning.

Police are investigating the residents’ version of the story and are trying to determine what actually occurred and whether the residents were targeted.